The thought that murders the wish that fathered it will be overtaken by the revenge of stupidity

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.